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Lateral thinking .. golf question .. help !!

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gadgesa | 07:21 Thu 23rd Jun 2005 | Quizzes & Puzzles
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Hi . . i got a lateral thinking quiz which is driving me nuts .. basically there are two players who have played a round of golf, one guy scores 74 and one scores 72 ... the guy with 74 wins .. why ?


i have tried the obvious but told no .. they have the same handicap so that doesn't help, they are both the same type of golfer so the course handicap is the same for both of them (i.e one is not a junior) and it is not the last round of a 4 round tournament .. !!


any other ideas ?


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If it is "match play". i.e. winning individual holes rather than a medal round where the total round score is the issue, it is possible for the player with the higher score to win. 
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pete

thanks .. didn't think of that .. d'uh ! (should have !!!)  i will try .. let you know ..

Did the 72 fail to get his card signed?
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no, i tried that one .. all cards were filled in properly ...
could they be playing different people?

Stableford points?

A bit unlikely with those sort of scores, but possible

Knowing nothing about golf I came up with the same answer as byside int.
I thought lateral thinking puzzles didn't usually need anr specialist knowlede, which makes the 'playing diffferent people, not each other' more likely.
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ok guys .. sorry .. i now know the answer .. the question started "two golfers take each other on in a competition, one scored ..etc etc etc" .. the answer was "they might have been golfers but they were playing darts !!! the competition was to see who could throw highest in 3 darts.

Some of the above answers are of course correct IF they had been playing golf .. my own fault for not listening to the question carefully enough !!!

they are both playing different people, rather then each other

If the golfers were playing stableford, the higher score would win.

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